Such a sad trend in America's economy!
Free trade is starting to get quite costly for many Americans.
"Nearly all major U.S.-based furniture manufacturers have operations in China to take advantage of lower-cost production,..."
The greedy US workers could have saved their jobs by taking a 75% pay cut and forgone any health care or other benefits. They were just to lazy and greedy to stop the wave of 'free trade' with all of the attendant benefits to the US consumer - it's all for the better good.
'Willie Green' alert.
I couldn't believe it, I bought a masonry tool the other day that was actually "made in America". There were three other same type tools to choose from and all had different pricing and quality. The price I paid for the "made in America tool" was higher but so was the quality.
you would have been a hit in england in the 1800's when the united states was carting away english industry!
Then stop producing mass market stuff and start producing high quality, individualistic "artisan" stuff!
I have a feeling a these companies had a lot of deadwood middle management.
America pioneered the mass production revolution and we will pioneer the move to customized semi-massed production via internet marketing.
The same thing is happening in the Hardwood flooring industry. Chinese imports are drastically cheaper than are North American (both US and Canadian) made products, and the Chinese are dumping product into this country by the shipload.
Johnston Benchworks in NC appears to be doing well. I've got a few of their pieces.
Chinese furniture is clearly inferior to many American pieces and nearly all European ones. You get what you pay for.